Setting up deployment via git

Add this entry to your local .git/config:

[remote "prod"]
  url = amazon:/path/to/repo.git
  fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/amazon/*

For this example, you should have "amazon" as an entry in your ~/.ssh/hosts file, like so:

Host amazon
  Hostname <Actual host name of the server>
  User <User to login as>
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/amazon-private-key

Then on the server:

mkdir -p /path/to/repo.git
cd /path/to/repo.git
git init --bare
git --bare update-server-info
git config core.bare false
git config core.worktree /path/to/actual/worktree
git config receive.denycurrentbranch ignore
cat > hooks/post-receive << EOF
#!/bin/sh
git checkout -f
EOF
chmod +x hooks/post-receive

You should then be able to do a git push prod master from your local copy.

Additional resources:

Automatically Deploying Website From Remote Git Repository
Node.js server and Web Sockets on Amazon EC2 with Express.js and Socket.IO
StackOverflow: Deploy a project using Git push

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Setting up deployment via git